Built within the reconstructed southeast bastion of the city wall, this lavish museum has a basement full of Graeco-Roman–style stone reliefs and well-executed murals of prehistoric life. The main hall is dominated by a statue of Timur Malik, the local hero who battled the Mongol onslaught from an island in the Syr-Darya. What the museum lacks is any real collection of actual artefacts.
